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I watched ABC last night and the report was 10 minutes? His part was a long part. I can easily excuse some minor factual inaccuracy and get his point. If he truly relayed a flat out false story I am done with that kid.

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There obviously was more care that can be put into that entire transaction. A couple things missing from the article were I assume there is no long gun waiting period in that state. The kid assumes there was no background check when it is possible there was an insta check ran that he passed. Lastly, and I am only guessing the insta check may have know he renewed his license. He did not actually have an expired license per the DMV or at least that is how PA works.

In the end though these are the sort of transactions and laws, tighter regulations people should concern themselves with more than what gun is what. I think anyway.

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This kid was speaking to the fucking President of the United States a week after his best friend and 16 other people were slaughtered in his high school (A day before his birthday) and you're done with him because a story he said he read was likely false. Like I said you weren't interested in listening. The kid made a very courageous and heartfelt plea to the president (for nearly 5 mins) to stop these things from happening.

Your support and frequent excuse making for a president who lies all the time makes it clear to all that you don't have an issue with liars.

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I didn't say no 20 year old with an expired licesne could buy a gun. They are talking about a specific incident and it's bullshit:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/27394/fa ... en-shapiro

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What is it you don't agree with?

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That is very illegal in Illinois.

Don't lie and I will believe you. Trump has nothing to do with it.

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The paintings were based on classics which themselves were depictions of the biblical story of a woman beheading the leader of an assaulting army while he slept, leading ultimately to the army's defeat. Placing a nondescript white person into the role of Holofernes (the unaware beheaded leader) and a black woman into the role of Judith would I think send a pretty clear message what the painting is about. Then Nas himself said the paintings were referencing the "kill whitey" angle.

Saying that the paintings were intended to stoke racial tensions or further the divide, or even to proudly depict violence against white people, isn't exactly wrong.

Nas is racist. We all know this.

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I'm very concerned about Nas and his thoughts.

Is he coming for me next?

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Never said it wasn't. My understanding at the time it was the responsibility of the seller to validate foid and record and maintain the bill of sale. If he didn't want to, wasn't my problem. Looking back, hadn't really considered it being stolen. The story was the guy won the gun in a raffle. It was 30-30 lever action rifle new in box. Unless you specifically wanted a lever action, easy to believe he was telling the truth and didn't actually want it.

It is my experience, most gun owners who have bought and sold have a story similar to this where they come into an undocumented gun.

MANY are thinking the same thing.

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Unhinged! Very nasty!

I'll make this clear: I don't think Nas is coming for anyone, nor encouraging others to do so. My cursory reading about him leaves me with the impression that he likes to be provocative, and his "beheading" paintings certainly are that, especially because I get the feeling he wanted people to take the paintings literally at first blush, then trust that buzzword-laden defenses of his work would suffice to make those people who did exactly what he intended seem dumb and uncultured. They are also just art. However, art is not immune from critique nor criticism.

Also I reside in Georgia now. Enjoy these laws.

https://www.pewpewtactical.com/gun-laws ... -gun-laws/



So even an expelled troubled 17 year old without a criminal record can legally buy a rifle in 5 minutes in my state.

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That's art. It's supposed to be provocative.

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"CNN says High School students should be making our gun laws...weren’t they just eating tide pods two weeks ago???"

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The Yankee Pedlar isn't provocative, does that mean it isn't art?

Regardless, the provocative nature of the paintings doesn't mean that the displeasure at depicting racial violence, and subtly hinting at a larger clashing of races given the story of the source material, is somehow "dumb" as you painted it or "wrong" as did Nas. Especially when the artist says "kill whitey" informed the piece(s).

I didn't say it was dumb. I said the way Carlson tried to position the paintings was race baiting. Which of course it was and much of the Fox audience will eat it up. The segment was designed as such.

Also, you're purposely taking Nas's "kill whitey" comment out of context. Regardless, Nas is as entitled to be a bigot as anyone, if in fact he is. The point of the segment, as you well understand, was to smear Obama as a "racist" through his portrait artist.

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I never understood the Obama is a racist thing. He was practically raised by 2 white grandparents with midwestern roots and he appeared to love them far more than his absent father and mother who was constantly traveling the world to find herself. I think fitting in with white kids before college was far easier for him than blacks. Chicago and music helped him connect with blacks. If anything I would think he hated black men.

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I don't know what the segment was about, I didn't see it. 8 had presumed it was about another miscalculation by Obama in his series of attempts to stay woke, coinciding with his pardoning of a violent terrorist, etc.

You made this about misunderstanding Nas's "oeuvre", not about whether Obama commissioning his official portrait from a possible bigot or advocate of violent racism makes Obama an advocate of same by proxy. This is a complete shifting of the goalposts. But now that Nas's "oeuvre" has been discussed a little deeper regarding the beheading paintings, you want to talk about how absurd it is to call Obama a racist because the artist of his portrait might be. And it is absurd, it's just not what you originally wanted to talk about.

Provocative, untoward, idk. There is always a fine line in being a cheeky artist, or an artist making a statement, or an artist being kind of an asshole or shocking. I'm not sure which one he is in this case. He has said "“The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.”

http://ncartmuseum.org/blog/view/new_in ... inde_wiley

"This new rendition can be interpreted on many different levels, including racial and gender identity and inequity, the representation of women throughout art history, and society’s ideals for beauty. In Nas’s words, “I am painting women in order to come to terms with the depictions of gender within the context of art history. One has to broaden the conversation . . . This series of works attempts to reconcile the presence of black female stereotypes that surrounds their presence and/or absence in art history, and the notions of beauty, spectacle, and the ‘grand’ in painting.”"

I don't see how the paintings from the series does that or what/how this is reconciling black female stereotypes and the notions of beauty, spectacle, and the ‘grand’. This series has a piss christ feel to it.

I like/admire what he is trying to do/the idea behind his work but the art is a little flat or formulaic. Maybe it stems from his work being solely based on other works. He's talented though.

It hasn't been discussed deeper. You came at it exactly the way Carlson did. Maybe you don't notice it, but you're doing to Kehinde Nas (although not directly) exactly the thing that upsets you so much when Regular Reader does it to you.

And I don't know why you keep putting "oeuvre" in quotes. if you're trying to make some point that a black artist's art might be about his personal experiences in America, I would suggest he wouldn't be much of an artist if they weren't.

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I never called him racist that I recall but I was pretty drunk during his administration. I always wondered why he didn't use his biracial background as you outlined.

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He did while campaigning in the rustbelt and rural America. I imagine going overboard with it would have turned off people who didn't think he was "black enough".

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Yeah I assumed it might have to do with the not black enough.

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